It looks like the Comic Book History of Animation was saving the best for last as the final issue will be heavily anime-focused. But in this preview of The Comic Book History of Animation #5, we learn ...

With a trunk full of paper stock, charcoal, and a giant easel in tow, Bessie Mae Kelley would travel the country for her vaudeville circuits in the 1920s. Kelley was an animation pioneer, having ...

Part 1. Origins of animation -- Chapter 1. Setting the scene for animation. Early innovations in simulating movement ; The printing press and comic strips ; The impact of photography on studies of ...

1 - Signature® Floor Session - The History of Animation - The Glad Museum Collection (Live Floor, Live Phone, Mail, Fax, Internet, and Heritage Live): (Lots 16001-16329) - 10:00 AM Central Time, ...

Tossed-off “best-of” animation listicles are a dime a dozen. Lists that provide thorough, learned surveys of animation history are not. Hats off, then, to culture website Vulture’s beautifully ...

The annals of culture are filled with what has succeeded and, in some form or another, remained — and yet what we’ve left behind is often as important and instructive as what we’ve kept with us. That ...

The Comic-Con Museum in Balboa Park. Photo courtesy of the museum Childhood memories will come flooding back to visitors checking out the newest exhibits at the Comic-Con Museum in Balboa Park. “The ...

Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Abstraction by Andrew R. Johnston. University of Minnesota Press. Andrew R. Johnston’s book will undoubtedly frustrate general readers with its dense ...

In 2020, it can be hard to remember how dire the state of American animated television was not so long ago. In the 1980s, repetitive adventure series designed to sell action figures, like Transformers ...

Anyone who came of age in the latter part of the twentieth century will recall the constant flow of animated cartoons that made up most of children’s programming on TV. In a culture of supposedly ...